These parents killed their child and we need to say it

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Absolute Fing traitor

Since I've been grumpy about distant-reading of lyrics, let me share this spectacular figure from Sobchuk & Beheim 2025, which traces two themes in Eng fiction 1850-1940, and decomposes change to new-authors, author-exits, and individual-change. Real progress in our understanding here.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

I mean … it may seem uniquely silly because we associate the lyric mode with unmediated self-expression, but … that assumption is exactly what leads this article astray, so … A distant reading connected to information about production & reception could tell us a lot.

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

In three years, all the Trump wording on govt buildings will be thrown in a giant fire. We will literally have a big bonfire on national TV…. And ceremonially destroy any memory of the Trump presidency And replace his photo on the “walk of fame” in WH with two huge Cankles

This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.

Fascinating and thought-provoking essay by @vauhinivara.bsky.social on AI-generated literature—drawing on research by @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Jane Ginsburg, and @dhillonp.bsky.social. The piece includes an uncanny quiz (which I did terribly on) and a beautiful meditation on literature.

Molly Mittens wishes everyone a merry Xmas!

Molly Mittens wishes everyone a merry Xmas!

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR

Release the Jack Smith transcript.

Schmidt on how the Time on the Cross debate shaped the rise of digital history. He uses a fantastic Ash Chen and Naidu paper as a contrast to what digital history isn’t - but argues that it’s mostly a good thing. Super fascinating if you follow digital humanities or social science history debates.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

He's a very sick man.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

Reminder that Bari Weiss held the 60 Minutes piece on migrant gulags with the suggestion that Stephen Miller (whose number she has) should comment. Maybe if 60 Minutes could just post this video alongside the story, it would meet Weiss's vaunted editorial standards.

Um, holy fuck, they appear to be trying to rename immigration judges "deportation judges"---this ad just showed up in my Facebook feed

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

State media serving Dear Leader.

Holy shit! On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Happy Holidays from RSVP! Our gift 🎁 to you is the debut of a new interview series, starting with @patrickleary.bsky.social, who sat down with @c19thnewshound.bsky.social this past year to discuss "Getting Started with Periodicals Research." Stay tuned for more in 2026! rs4vp.org/introducing-...

NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)

College journalism strikes again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Physical copies of our Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities book (newest volume in Debates in DH series) arrived today just in time for the holidays! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

There's always a Tweet.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

It’s 2026. The US is shipping innocent people to overseas concentration camps. The Empire orders one of the major broadcast networks to kill the story, and it complies. Striking from their hidden base (in Canada), rebel employees of an affiliate station . . . “

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I know Sharyn Alfonsi, i worked with Sharyn Alfonsi (at ABC News), Bari Weiss you are no Sharyn Alfonsi. Sharyn is as good as a journalist as you will ever find, and she has more integrity in her little toe than Weiss has in her entire body.

Like do we remember the NeurIPS renaming debacle? Or the FAccT wars? Or that poor engineer in Portland who did some sentiment analysis on books and got dragged across the network by anti-AI people? All of that happened on Twitter!

she's just doing what she was hired to do

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Interdisciplinary research ftw…!

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

My piece based on work w/ the @puddingviz.bsky.social is on this list, which is pretty neat 😸🐻

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of